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Genre is a social construct
>>7979449
YA is
>>7979449
To look at literature through the lens of "genre" is miguided when one should instead look at it in terms of originality and sincerity. There are books written about teenagers that are good, but looking for some central theme running through them all is pointless. Trying to extrapolate a whole genre from this is even more pointless, and it exists only to cater to a specific market demographic.
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What are some novels where the Napoleonic Wars play a large role, aside from War and Peace?
>>7979398
Les miserables
>>7979398
Charterhouse of Parma.
Red and the Black, also by Stendhal takes place after the Napoleonic wars, but greatly influences the main character
The Master and Commander series but mostly on the naval war with a few minor land engagements and espionage
sup /lit. didn't see a thread in weeks so I thought I would start one.. What is the best e-reader? I don't really do a lot of reading but i'd like one maybe just in case. you never know right?
Is this a meme? I feel like I'm getting memed.
I just started lurking here. Whats the opinion on kindles here?
>>7979301
Excellent paired with Calibre and a working knowledge of book piracy.
People will remind you, as well as I, to download nice editions of your favorite authors/books to keep on your shelf and make you look very guff and artsy to guests.
There's almost always one of these threads in the catalog. Since you just started lurking I won't call you a faggot.
I love mine. It's totally worth it. I concur with >>7979315
>>7979315
I see people posting their physical libraries here and get jealous. Most of the time I can't find a physical copy of the books to buy here to add on to my library. They get more expensive too when shipped from overseas so I stick with my kindle. Guests are hardly a problem as no one ever comes in to my room but it would have been nice to have a neat looking book collection to post in /lit/ once in a while :)
>Of Voluntary Death
>Truly, I do not want to be like the rope makers:they spin out their yarn and as a result continually go backwards themselves.
What does he mean by this?
Well the communists say the last capitalist they hang will be the one that sold them the rope. Nietzsche didn't want to voluntarily die, so he didn't want to be a capitalist rope maker.
>>7979300
I believe that he is referring to people who come up with one idea and then stick to it steadfastly, continually developing the one idea, and in doing so get 'left behind' in their own thought, since despite all the extrapolation they are still based in that one old idea that they had long ago. He, instead, looks to destroy his own ideas and come up with new and better ones. That way he will always make progress towards his highest possible self.
He's being silly. You can't spin yam and even if you could it would not cause you go to backwards.
Also, he grew that mustache as a joke. The man had a diabolical sense of humor.
>"One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
what did he mean by this
A Kierkegaardian leap of faith
>>7979241
Nobel prize winner eheh
This is my personal understanding. I do not know if this is the academic understanding but frankly given the subject matter I don't really care one way or the other.
When he says "One" he is referring to humankind. Humanity must (note the imperative) imagine that Sisyphus is happy in his never-ending labor because unfortunately being a human is no different since there is no inherent worth in any particular action. If someone ridicules or pities Sisyphus they must ridicule and pity themselves. If one thinks Sisyphus's life is not worth living then they at the same time asserting that their own life is not worth living. Therefore "One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
The biggest way people misinterpret this is assuming that Sisyphus is a tragic character and that Camus was claiming that life is pointless and empty and depressing. In fact it is the opposite. In a life without meaning you are free to create your own meaning and embrace whatever it is you want to embrace without guilt or remorse.
okay, i admit that i'm scum. i usually pirate .epubs, and i won't try to justify it. however, i decided it was time to get right with jesus and i went looking for somewhere i could buy Bruce Sterling's "Zeitgeist". i have a paperback copy, but my ex kept it after she decided to pursue her career as a morphine addict and to stop answering her phone.
and nobody seems willing to sell me that ,epub. ebookmall.com says they either can't, or won't sell it to anyone living in my country (which is weird 'cause i don't live in fucking North Korea), and amazon doesn't have an epub.
i thought goodreads might be able to point me to somewhere, but all they seem to do is circle-jerk you around. i threw up a little in my mouth when they suggested i might like Orson Scott Card.
so. where the fuck do you get your ebooks, /lit/?
>>7979159
> paperback is 0.01$ in amazon
OP pls
Also it's the worst Leggy Starlitz story
>>7979193
probably used though so that 1 cent doesnt go towards the author but the reseller
>>7979193
shipping cost is $65.
and how can you say it's the worst Lekhi Starlitz story when he forces that Turkish criminal gang leader to vomit bullets, currency and bags of heroin?
name some Sci fi or fantasy novels that actually have literary merit (what ever the fuck that means).
I'll start
vurt - Jeff Noon
the once and future king - T.H. White
Too rebbit, maybe
>>7979236
I read this not to long ago and I wasn't too impressed. maybe it is better in its original language. the stupidity of the scientists drove me crazy.
What are some decent books about army, preferably non-fiction?
sven hassel ?
>>7979092
You may be be better off asking /k/
>>7979092
they don't exist...
Poetry thread /lordbyron/ editiion. Post favourite poems
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes;
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o’er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express,
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.
And on that cheek, and o’er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!
>>7979076
>thinking byron was decent
It's like you want to get beat up. Tennyson was the champ.
>>7979118
>not Keats
Think again pal.
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.
Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,
Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or by a cider-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings, hours by hours.
Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,--
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft,
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
And then she:
'Although our love is waning, let us stand
By the long border of the lake once more,
Together in that hour of gentleness
When the poor tired child, Passion, falls asleep:
How far away the stars seem, and how far
Is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart!'
Pensive they paced along the faded leaves,
While slowly he whose hand held hers replied:
'Passion has often worn our wandering hearts.'
The woods were round them, and the yellow leaves
Fell like faint meteors in the gloom, and once
A rabbit old and lame limped down the path;
Autumn was over him: and now they stood
On the lone border of the lake once more:
Turning, he saw that she had thrust dead leaves
Gathered in silence, dewy as her eyes,
In bosom and hair.
'Ah, do not mourn,' he said,
'That we are tired, for other loves await us;
Hate on and love through unrepining hours.
Before us lies eternity; our souls
Are love, and a continual farewell.
Yeats 4 life.
Looking for recommendations to get into deeper works of nihilism. Not really for any other purpose than the kind of wild appreciation that comes with confronting the insanity of the world. Need not be works of literature, I'm actually hoping for some philosophy recommendations as well. Figured I would start the thread here though instead of /his/ in that literary recommendations are fine too, and I'm not really looking to discuss nihilism as a conceptual "framework." Also, smut is fine too. Hogg, etc.
>inb4 fedora bullshit
>inb4 Bataille isn't a nihilist. I know. But his works tend in that direction.
will bump with a few further works.
What do u hope to get out of Nhilism?
Its meaningless to believe in nhilism as well as practice it if that's what u truly believe
>>7979021
It's not what I believe. It's just fun to indulge in every now and then.
I'm actually quite concerned about nihilism, in the Heideggerian/Nietzschean sense. But as far as literature and philosophy? It's not bad to entertain/understand or at least appreciate on a certain level.
Say what you want about the series. Do not say it isn't /lit/, cause it is. No spoilers. Ok thanks byee.
MY MOTHER IS A FISH XD
>>7978984
She smells like one lmaoooo
Yea it's a pretty good series.
/lit/,
I've noticed how bogged down in the obscure and classic this place often is. So:
New, commercially successful books that you think are actually really good.
I'll start. Station Eleven.
Doesn't necessarily have to be commercially successful - but it does have to be new.
I really liked A Visit from the Goon Squad. I think that's the newest piece of fiction on my shelf.
>>7979012
Just read the opening chapter. Good stuff. Will buy it.
Has /lit/ read this masterpiece?
My 6th form English teacher gave everyone in the class a book as a leaver's present. How'd I do?
Did pretty OK actually.
Feel bad for the unlucky pop-top that landed Kate Chopin. Read her once and it was bayou cuck erotica in every sense of the word.
>>7978876
You did good that story is hilarious
>>7978876
Anon, be honest, are you in 6th grade?
